Food the old fashioned way

Traditional Norwegian Smoked Lamb with Onion Sauce

Smoking is an old cooking and preserving method for meat and fish. Smoked foods get a distinctive smoked flavor that many people like. While smoking was previously used as a preservation method in the old days, the preservative effect is limited, so smoking is currently used mainly to give taste and aroma to the food here in Norway.

Approach

[1] Cook the meat tender, about 2 hours. Cook the rutabaga and mash it (same procedure as for mashed potatoes). Cut the carrots into sticks and cook them.

[2]Make the onion sauce like this: Melt butter or margarine, sprinkle with the flour and stir well. Stir in the lamb broth. Add the carrot broth, the chopped onion and the pepper at the end of the cooking.